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Show FRENCH RESORT IS OVERTIMED Famous Deauville Poor, Place Alongsick America's Famous Vacation Spots m WILLIAM BIRD, Spei iul ( orrexpnndent of The Stands nra-Baa miner (Copyright 1 ! 2 by The Standard-Examiner, Standard-Examiner, i DEAUVILLE, France July I. A few weeks hence this Ilttlecbeach on' the Normandy CogSl Will be IhS hub of (he world's elegance, Psobte thousands thou-sands of miles away will Itfiaglne It to lie in indesi ribnble Elysium and een if the-- havo week-ended In Florida, Flor-ida, or Long Island, or the. Jersey i coast, will f itiry ihnr Deauville Is to the iost as Palm Beach is to Coney Island, They will be wrong. Deauville Is va -ii ly Overrated, Physically at Deuuvllle thjti A couple or hundred yards of beai h that has been cleaned up and put In order, with unsightly marsh'- and rank, scrubby undergrowth on sai b side; a row of 30 or 40 villages owned by French and foreign aristocracy and millions Iredom. and occupied for n few weeks in the year; two or thre.j hotels called big, but really little. D. concrete "casino" of the customary Wedding cake design all this along' the beach Anil back of thai a few street of ships a modest little fee's . that spreads Its tables over the high-; uay and Is the only smart afternoon' lea resort In town, and a collection of ' cheap houeu thai rent at fantastic; prices sa summer bungalows I1 NO N Tl it IL BEAUjnZ Nothing thit would attract a crowd In ft Mln. r.IKU,. K9H 1 'for natural beauty with Msrlda or with the resorts of the JenSy toast. Nothing, that la bul the dasffi), where gambling goea on undei thVeyes of. I and with the partlclpatioTi of the French government. Vet. somehow, a summer is not I complete w ithout a few days at least. I at Deauville Parisians save their , money for a year lo be able to pay ' the prtre of a room at the Hotel Normandy, Nor-mandy, for one night. F.nghsh trippers" trip-pers" flock there for week-ends and spend more than they ordinarily ( spend on a whole London theatre se-BOn se-BOn American tourists feel that their trip has been a failure If they haven t -pent a tithe of their whole budget at the "Plage Fleurle." GAMBLING ROOM Why? It will probably always be an unanswered mixtion There iej Just one room at Deauville that re- ally differs from two score of seaside sea-side resorts In France, and that Is the baccarat room. To enter this room you must first of all, be a member of tho club which means' that you must buy. a membership ard at ion francs for the season or 50 francs for two weeks. ;,'t!"or this entry fee you have the pruHlege of watching some of the riebeV people in the world play baccarat, j3nd gossip, gos-sip, .in.l gel drunk AndHiat, no doubt. Is what attracts the eruvwl- Outsldc. In the main half of tho casino, you can play "boull." Bou.e is like roulette, except that the odds are 1J per cent against the player. Instead of four, and the limit, fixed before the war and never altered la 50 francs on an ' even chance" (which I means that the chances are five i four against you or 20 francs on a': number. There are nine numbers. i and If yotlr number wins you win I -even times the value of your stake.' I Boule, therefore, attracts only plk- i i t ii,. haerarat room, you can ers' In umit vou choose Banks of p,ay any llm'Vppen frequently. a million fran." ,V,V4lTKn. FORJIKIt IIA1 MAU The presiding gsnlUS f'gLi"! I,, one Cornucne eZlm. ne was a Mead waiter n lslts to bis dear I aris, sarw NCh'nWr.ard died. Cornu, he d.-elded d.-elded to bra nCt out. . numner of enterprises that .have JISBii trultful both Inr him and for )m rummer resort In those days. Cor nuche established himself tnere. BW 0 telt - ramped. He declOjd tO bj, tne blggesl trt In the pudale He uVuricnell ueauville, which up to that time wa- JUSt a little sottUmen ou the other side of the Touqucs rn r. Wlthlh tgo years fashion hd moved across tne iitt.e river, and HouMlle sas ruined . .. ,i, Lurned his attention to the wm- to, resorts oh in. Mediterranean. Nice v, ., the raehlonabls piare. t ornuchc went there. Then he pulled the same stunt, and In a short spa. c of time is'lce was all but ruined in favor ot Cannes which belonged body and soul, to Cornuchc and his followers. |